The Universe is slowly dying, thanks in part to a dramatic decrease in the formation of new stars.
There are many theories dictating exactly how the Universe will meet its end, but one thing has been agreed upon: its energy levels are plummeting. Just how rapidly that energy loss has been occurring, had been unclear.
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Astronauts have eaten arguably the most significant salad in the history of human exploration.
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Windows 10's first major bug fix update has stranded some users in an endless loop of reboots. Users have been reporting the problem to Microsoft, which is yet to suggest a solution.
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Your WIRED.co.uk daily briefing. Today, Google gets a new CEO, Japan restarts first nuclear power plant since Fukushima, Windows 10 update glitch and more.
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Google has a new CEO and his name is Sundar Pichai.
In a shock reorganisation of the business, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will run a new holding company called Alphabet and Pichai will step up to run Google in their place. But who is Pichai, and what are his qualifications to take the helm?
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Google has announced a dramatic reorgnisation of its business, with Sundar Pichai taking over as CEO of the company. Google co-founder Larry Page said in a blog post that he and co-founder Sergey Brin would move to a new holding company, Alphabet, of which he would be CEO and Brin will be president. More to follow.
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a 'mother robot' that can build its own 'children'.
The mother can also test its children and evaluate their performance in order to improve the results when it designs the next generation of robots -- passing down desirable traits, but 'breeding out' less successful ones. Beyond the initial instruction to build robots capable of movement, there is no intervention either by humans or by computers.
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